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so I'll be having a look at a board from bio stars T series this is a ta 790 G X B 3 so that means it's a 790 G X motherboard it has support for the thin M 2 X 4 processor and ddr3 it also has support for a bunch of other sort of standard features like SATA 2 HD audio DVI Gigabit Ethernet and let's have a look at the back so you can see they've they're calling out some of their of their features so you've got onboard power and reset buttons Japanese solid capacitors ok something about an overclocking utility and then default 3 overclocking modes in the BIOS so that's kind of neat so they've got some overclocking profiles in the BIOS the thing about a BIOS card board is that you're not going to tend to see a whole lot of unnecessary bells and whistles but what you do get is a solid board at a very very reasonable price so here's the users manual which is mostly in English and then I think include gi includes some some random stuff Japanese Arabic Russian polish Portuguese Spanish Italian and French and Germans but that's only like the index it doesn't actually include any of the instructions in those languages so there you go and then we've got a drivers and utilities CD ok download the latest off the BIOS star website don't bother using that then we have one molex to SATA power adapter two SATA cables that are yellow and one IDE cable and that comes in a nice little cable tie velcro thing that you can use for cable management in your case when you're done installing the motherboard we've got an i/o shield alright and then let's get to the motherboard itself so while the packaging leaves a little bit to be desired you'll find that like all biostar boards once I get the tape off once I get the tape off come off tape wow that's a long piece of tape that they're using you know just in case the package flies away ok so once you get the board itself out it's a fairly sharp sharp looking board so they've used like a green orange and blue color scheme for this one and so why don't we start with the CPU socket you've got support for am-3 CPUs which includes the 965 Black Edition AMD's current flagship CPU okay then you've got hot at the dozen one two three four I'm not sure how many phases the power but it looks like somewhere between four and five based on how many of these there are alright so then we've got its to couldn't control we've got support for your typical ddr3 dual channel memory so four slots for that and then we have our power of connectors in their usual ideal locations with the 24 pin along the right hand edge and the four pin power connector up at the top left now in terms of SATA connectors we've got C this is the kind of thing this that you will tend to see a little bit on value boards is that the layouts might not be exactly optimal so you can see that the top SATA port is actually going to be covered by a dual slot full-length graphics card now if you have a single slot graphics card then you're good to go you can use all six of the SATA 2 connectors but if you do have a dual slot graphics card you can probably only use five of them shouldn't be that big of a deal you got your clear CMOS switch here one IDE port here are your onboard power and reset switches as well as your color-coded front panel switches three USB 2.0 front panel headers I really like that I don't think 2 is enough because a lot of cases have 4 front USB and then if you want to even have like a card reader and then and then what yeah exactly that's it so if you wanted to have a card reader you wouldn't be able to but if you have three headers you can you have four front USB and the card reader I love that so then we've got a floppy connector here then in terms of expansion ports we've got one PCI Express 16x slot two PCIe 1x slots and three PCI because again it's a value board so you're gonna be expecting someone using this as like an upgrade err board to have some legacy PCI stuff that they want to carry forward with them you can see there's a dinky little heatsink on this chipset right here and that's all that's really necessary for it but then we've got a fairly beefy looking fairly large heatsink on the actual 790 GX chipset itself so that pretty much own okay there's one auxiliary power here so that's just I think this is going to be highly optional okay so it's only if you're running an extremely high powered graphics card here and even then you probably don't need to use that so then on the back okay like most 790 GX boards we do have support for onboard graphics we've got DVI and VGA and then we have two ps2 ports for USB 1 Gigabit Ethernet and then we have support for Wow okay I haven't seen aboard with a-79 egx chipset that only has three audio ports so microphone headphones and then I believe that's a line in our line out and I think you can also use software to configure it for five point one with no mic so thank you for checking out my quick unboxing of the ta 790 GX b3